Those unable to attend the Fall Meeting gathered Monday evening in Greenville to learn about key take-aways from last month’s meeting in Los Angeles. Clemson MRED students shared highlights from the meeting with 50 attendees.

Major take-aways shared include:

• Driverless autonomous vehicles will be widely adopted by 2030—which sparked debate and questions among the attendees regarding when/if it will happen
• The housing affordability crises is a growing challenge for cities of all sizes—there is no silver bullet as far as policy but opportunity in private public partnerships;
• ULI’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate key finding: “We are in a long cycle, not in boom/bust. The key to the next few years is to expand horizons, market by market, property type by property type.”  Read more here: https://americas.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/ULI-Documents/EmergingTrendsInRealEstate2018.pdf